REPORTERS ROUNDUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100830009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 18, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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PROGRAM Reporters Roundup
December 18, 1966
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CITY Washington, DC
Guest: Senator Joseph Clark, Democrat, Pennsylvania.
REPORTER: "Senator, recently a gentleman lost a libel suit
against the CIA. And they said, the court, I believe, that the
CIA could say anything they wanted to, in fact in -- when they
were protecting our national security.
"Senator, has the CIA -- is it above the law now? Is that
what they're telling us?"
SENATOR CLARK: "I'11 answer your question indirectly, by
saying, in my judgement, there are three major threats to the
successful survival of American democracy. And thefirst is that
military-industrial complex which General Eisenhower warned us
against, which is evidenced in very high quarters by our strong
support of military regimes in various parts of the world. And
by the enormous impact which the military and their industrial
partners exercise over public opinion -- the effect they have on
members of Congress and of the Senate.
"The second danger is the CIA. An intelligence agency which
we've got to have, which practically every other nation has.
Which I think, in our country has achieved a position of power
pretty close to the danger line.
"And the third is evidenced by recent disclosures in the
newspapers, is the FBI and the threat they pose to the privacy
of theindividual citizen, and the further threat they pose by
way of blackmail, direct or indirect, on anybody who has the
effrontery to say anything unkind about Mr. J. Edgar Hoover."
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